QUANTITATIVE VALUE AND MEASURABILITY OF LEGAL BEHAVIOR IN PURE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

As a sociological approach, the sociology of pure law, which has evolved from pure sociological theory, deals directly with the behavior of the law itself, rather than with the individuals and their subjective beings who reveal their legal behavior. The greatest contribution of the pure legal sociology approach to the sociology of law has been to predict and explain all phases of legal behavior. According to pure sociology of law, in scientific legal research, law should be liberated from all other factors except social life and legal order, especially psychological elements and the plane of subjectivity, and should be considered as an example of social life. Sociology of law should deal with legal behaviors instead of individuals, and should be examined as a social phenomenon by completely purging the individual, psychological or extra-legal dimensions of law. While explaining legal behavior, pure sociology of law aims to show that legal behavior changes and is determined according to the relationships it has with the dimensions of social life by revealing the facts and predictions about the law. Black examines the relationship of legal behavior with social aspects by dividing it into five parts: stratification, morphology, culture, social organization and social controls. The social variables of legal behavior can be measured scientifically as the types of behavior used by statisticians. Quantitative changes in legal behavior that can be explained by social variables can only be revealed by the quantitative values and formal changes that the aspects that constitute the reality of social life will show if they come into contact with the law. Measuring the quantitative value of legal behavior also requires taking into account the forms of law. The forms of law are also quantitative, observable in social life, as well as the amounts of legal behavior, the forms of law can be determined and measured. As with everything in the universe, the quantitative value of the variations that arise in the legal field can be calculated and measured, as the behavior of law varies according to the social environment.